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‘37. τοὺς δὲ Κούρητας Φύλαρχος διὰ τῆς ια᾽ τῶν Ἱστοριῶν Αἰσχύλον ἱστορεῖν διὰ τὴν τρυφὴν τυχεῖν τῆς προσηγορίας: χλιδῶν

τε πλόκαμος ὥστε παρθένοις ἁβραῖς:
ὅθεν καλεῖν Κουρῆτα λαὸν ᾔνεσαν.
Ἀγάθων δ᾽ ἐν τῷ Θυέστῃ τοὺς τὴν Πρώνακτος θυγατέρα μνηστεύοντας τοῖς τε λοιποῖς πᾶσιν ἐξησκημένους ἐλθεῖν καὶ κομῶντας τὰς κεφαλάς, ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀπέτυχον τοῦ γάμου,

κόμας ἐκειράμεσθα φησίν μάρτυρας τρυφῆς,
ἦ που ποθεινὸν χρῆμα παιζούσῃ φρενί.
ἐπώνυμον γοῦν εὐθὺς ἔσχομεν κλέος
Κουρῆτες εἶναι, κουρίμου χάριν τριχός:
καὶ Κυμαῖοι δὲ οἱ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ, ὥς φησιν Ὑπέροχος ἢ ὁ ποιήσας τὰ εἰς αὐτὸν ἀναφερόμενα Κυμαικά, διετέλεσαν χρυσοφοροῦντες καὶ ἀνθιναῖς ἐσθῆσι. χρώμενοι καὶ μετὰ γυναικῶν εἰς τοὺς ἀγροὺς ἐξιόντες ἐπὶ ζευγῶν ὀχούμενοι. περὶ μὲν οὖν ἐθνῶν καὶ πόλεων τρυφῆς τοσαῦτα μνημονεύω, ’

Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. with an English Translation by. Charles Burton Gulick. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1927. 1.

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